The lost world of Hawaii’s nudist clubs and nude beaches from the 1970s and 1980s come to life in this beautiful hardcover book, Naked Hawaii, featuring the work of renowned nudist photographer, Leif Heilberg.
Active in the 70s and 80s, Leif traveled to Oahu and the neighbor islands often, capturing idyllic images of Larry and Pru Beck’s Hawaii Nudist Club in Kahuku and its successor, the North Shore Naturist Park. On the neighbor islands, Leif photographed his mainland friends, visitors and their families frolicking on the sands of unofficial nude beaches such as Hale Makala, Honokohau Beach and Kua Bay on the Big Island; Anahola Beach, Donkey Beach, Maha'ulepu Beach, and Mola'a Bay on Kauai.
Many of these photos have appeared in the pages of naturist magazines which were never widely distributed in Hawaii. Leif captured a free spirited and innocent lifestyle that no longer exists in the same form in modern day Hawaii.
Edited by T. L. Young, author of American Nudist: The Lost Journal, Naked Hawaii is a fine coffee-table book that celebrates the beauty of the islands complemented by the nude human form. The serenity and innocence of Heilberg’s photographs gives the reader a clear understanding of why naturism appealed to so many, and continues to do so today.
Naked Hawaii is the first of three volumes. Naked USA and Naked World will be made available later this year.
Also available now is an ebook titled, Naked Voices, collects all of the essays from the aforementioned three volumes, and includes a bonus section on the nudity protests in present day San Francisco.
